- Abbott: Proposal that would land Austin police under state control has been drafted ‘in time for Christmas’
- Feds join political fight over police funding in Austin, even though it doesn’t have Texas’ worst crime increase
- GOP former senators: Lt. Gov. Patrick risks becoming the Harry Reid of the Texas Senate by again changing the rules – says weak Republicans
- Texas House Members Call on Presumptive Speaker to Appoint Only Republicans to Pivotal Committee Chairmanships
- Will Dade Phelan Allow Democrats to Chair Key Committees?
- Rep. Patterson files digital privacy bill to stop “contact tracing” by cell phone
- Texas Capitol To Reopen January 4th
- Texas Capitol Set to Reopen, No Details on Protocol
- Texas Capitol Reopening After Being Closed Over Virus Fears
- Rep. Anchia maintains MALC chairmanship in election tonight
- Canales plans to form port caucus in Texas Legislature
- Analyzing 2020: The pandemic recession in Texas
- Texas Among Top in Nation with $12,500 Local Government Debt Per Citizen
- Planned Parenthood urges Texas to let it stay under Medicaid program – then stop murdering babies!
- Clean up voter rolls before surging ranks
- Texas Supreme Court: Compensate Man Wrongly Convicted in Cop’s Death
- Three Promoted to Leadership Positions within DPS
- DPS Graduates Three New Canine Handlers
- DPS to Increase Enforcement for the Holidays
- Abbott Appoints Three And Names Chair Of Texas State Board Of Examiners Of Psychologists
- Abbott Appoints Cagle To Task Force On Disaster Issues Affecting Persons Who Are Elderly And Persons With Disabilities
- Abbott Appoints Riskind To Texas Public Finance Authority
- Abbott Appoints Boggus To Texas Board Of Occupational Therapy Examiners
- Governor Abbott Appoints Kelly to 54th Judicial District Court
- Abbott To Appoint Wilson To Fourteenth Court Of Appeals
- Abbott Appoints Farris To First Court of Appeals
- Governor Abbott, TEA Announce Free Access To Supplemental Math Computer Program for Texas Schools, Families Through Texas Home Learning 3.0
- State Public Education Reports Highlight Student Underperformance, Teacher Strain
- State agencies work together to license formerly incarcerated
- South Texas restrictions were meant to protect people from COVID-19. Then the handcuffs and ticket books came out.
- Texas wired $16.65 million to fake mask distributor in Arizona
- Texas Stops Fraudulent “Amazon Store” E-Commerce Partnership Scheme
- Gov. Abbott’s last inauguration tab included $1.7 million for George Strait, six-figure bonuses for staff
- Forget secession talk, Texas may get kicked out of the union – no wonder the newspaper business is so desperately bad given their editorial opinion.
- TX11: Mr. Conaway leaves Washington – overall, well served.
- TX13: Congressman Mac Thornberry Posts Farewell Video
- SD30: Drew Springer Wins Special Election for Texas Senate Seat Against Shelley Luther
- SD30: GOP’s Springer Defeats Salon Owner Who Defied Virus Rules
- SD30: Drew Springer expresses victory after runoff, more
- SD30: Gov. Abbott campaigned hard for Springer
- SD30: The Shelley Luther Reality Show Is Canceled After Just Seven Months
- Texas Democrats got what they wished for in 2020. They still lost.
- Liberal Texas Monthly praises anti-conservative Charles Butt of HEB
- Beth Van Duyne could be the GOP’s antidote to high-profile progressives when she joins Congress
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Congress agrees on COVID-19 stimulus bill, McConnell says
- Congress unveils $2.3 trillion government spending and virus relief package
- Sen. Cornyn says it is possible CARES Act funding will not expire Dec 31
- Cruz on Senate Floor Celebrates Unanimous Passage of Bipartisan NASA Authorization Act VIDEO
- Nunes: FBI Was Lying to Congress — ‘This Is Really, Really Bad, and Somebody Needs to Pay a Price for It’ VIDEO
- Senator (and doctor) Rand Paul: Masks ‘Are All About Submission’
- Justice Dept. charges Libyan man in 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing
- AG Barr says ‘no reason’ for special counsel on election, Hunter Biden – another unreliable Bushie.
- Rep. Arrington: Keeping B-1s flying, personnel at Dyess a win
- Feds announce operation to reduce violent crime in Austin
- Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
- Corpus to Brownsville: Sepulveda calls for completion of I-69 E
- ATF Decision Could Lead to Biggest Gun Registration, Turn-in Effort in American History
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Press makes up martial law bid by Trump for a re-vote
- Cruz, Cornyn differ on Biden’s Electoral College win
- Republicans desperate to avoid floor fight over Electoral College vote – weak
- Without any serious investigation, AP continues to call election fraud claims “baseless”
- Herman:A Texas elector got it dangerously wrong
- Levin on SCOTUS Tossing Trump Election Lawsuits: ‘They Have Done a Grave Disservice to This Country’ VIDEO
- MSNBC’s Deutsch: Trump Trying to End Our ‘Madisonian Democracy’ – trying to ensure that elections were honest is now ending democracy? Sickening folk.
- Moritz: Why Texas Republicans are slow to utter the obvious – the point of this is to shame people for working to ensure a legal and proper election was held.
- Arizona: Maricopa County election board defies state subpoenas
- Election fraud in Nevada VIDEO
- The never-ending smugness of the NeverTrumpers
- Donald Trump Jr. Rallies in Georgia: ‘Do Not Squander This Opportunity’; Fight for the Senate
- Democrats Relying on Results of Mass Immigration to Flip Georgia Blue
- Democratic organizers set their sights on Asian American voters to win control of the Senate
- Biden’s “unity” message doesn’t mean getting along, it means domination
- Biden inaugural committee under fire for soliciting corporate donations
- Young Texas minister loses denominational license over political endorsement
- Alec Baldwin Suggests Violent Punishments for Trump: ‘A Knee on His Neck, Cutting Off His Oxygen’
- World Economic Forum: Davos 2021 to Reveal ‘Great Reset Initiative’
- Biden introduces his climate team, says ‘no time to waste’
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- Border / immigration
- Apprehensions Jump 182 Percent in One Texas Border Sector
- Three Human Stash Houses Raided in Laredo, Texas
- Illegal Immigrant Sentenced to 84 Months for Human Smuggling, Faces Likely Deportation
- A Texas case challenging the legality of DACA is back in federal court
- Arizona Migrant Border Deaths on Track for Record Amid Heat
- Mexican Cartel Gunmen Die in Failed Ambush Against Police near Texas Border
- Mexican Cartel Boss Using Children as Human Shields in Turf War
- Anzalduas Intl. Bridge will be a ‘game changer’ for RGV, Texas
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- Coronavirus a.k.a. WuFlu related – See this link for archive of essential WuFlu-related stories
- Texas COVID-19 situation report for 12/21/2020 (pdf) – 25,348* deaths & “active cases” of 271,694 (out of over 29,000,000,000 people, less than 1% of the population.) * Texas COVID numbers appear no longer trustworthy.
- WuFlu numbers in Texas do not justify erosion of freedoms
- Data: Hospitals underwhelmed by 2nd COVID wave, as they were with 1st
- Covid-19 tests our value for life, how we have decayed
- What SAGE Has Got Wrong
- Governor Abbott Provides Update On COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution In Texas
- ‘The Government Are the Criminals!’ — Police Clash with Anti-Lockdown Protesters in London VIDEO
- Dr. Deborah Birx (aka Scarf Queen) Visited Family Despite Own Travel Warning
- Andrew Yang Calls for ‘Barcode’ to Prove Coronavirus Vaccination – the evil that is ever present on the Left
- ‘No more shutdowns’: Abbott touts vaccine arrival as cases reach record high
- ‘No more shutdowns,’ Gov. Abbott said during vaccine distribution announcement
- Amid COVID resurgence, Gov. Abbott hails COVID vaccine as ‘miracle,’ no hint of lockdown
- Far-right protesters storm Oregon Capitol calling for end of COVID-19 restrictions – far-right? Oregon protest live VIDEO
- San Diego restaurants can temporarily remain open despite California’s stay at home order, pending court trial
- Hundreds jailed, thousands ticketed for violating South Texas COVID restrictions – over the top by miles, why are these “officials” not being stopped?
- New coronavirus variant: Flights from UK halted over Covid-19 concerns – it has been mutating all the time.
- Masked-up Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins urges people to stay home for Christmas VIDEO
- After recovering from COVID-19, Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price calls for convalescent plasma donations VIDEO – a useful statement from a politician
- Pennsylvania: zero or little evidence open gyms or restaurants spread COVID-19
- Lockdowns likely leading to an increase in suicides among the young
- FDA Releases Pfizer COVID Vaccine Safety Data: Should You Take It?
- How Much Does the Pfizer Vaccine Actually Reduce Risk of Hospitalization?
- What the Covid Vaccine Hype Fails to Mention
- COVID Vaccines – A Deeper Dive into the Data
- Were COVID-19 Vaccine Dangers Covered Up Prior to FDA Authorization?
- Covid-19 News: Knowing Right From Wrong
- When health workers at a Rio Grande Valley hospital declined the COVID-19 vaccine, a state senator and law enforcement lined up
- COVID & masks – See this link for a group of essential mask-related stories
- Sheriffs Across Texas Say Governor Abbott’s Mask Order is Unenforceable
- Masks are neither effective nor safe: Summary of the science – ignore who the author is, it does not matter, simply check the sources/footnotes.
- Leftist media attempts to shame people into wearing masks
- Senator (and doctor) Rand Paul: Masks ‘Are All About Submission’
- Probe: Trump officials attacked CDC virus reports – B.S. reporting, arguing about these things is part of the process and part of what “peer review” means.
- Arizona man charged with stealing millions from state of Texas after claiming to be mask distributor
- COVID & schools – See this link for more.
- CDC director says closed schools pose larger public health risk for kids than reopening, U.S. Pediatricians Call For In-Person School This Fall
- Study: Children are so immune to COVID-19 that even after extensive exposure they test negative
- Governor Abbott, TEA Announce Free Access To Supplemental Math Computer Program for Texas Schools, Families Through Texas Home Learning 3.0
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- Business/Economy
- Texas unemployment rate rose to 8.1% in November – awful
- Analyzing 2020: The pandemic recession in Texas
- Oil & gas rig count rises with oil’s rally
- Diamondback Energy agrees to acquire two rivals; deals total $1.4 billion
- Midlander’s company creates 2 new ranch water flavors
- Local dry ice companies preparing for demand as Pfizer vaccines ship out in Texas
- Some small businesses are still struggling months into the pandemic VIDEO
- Seismique, a trippy immersive experience, is opening in an old big-box store in west Houston
- Why Houston’s suburbs are exploding with build-to-rent homes
- With planes parked by the pandemic, Southwest Airlines starts seasonal flights to Colorado ski resorts
- SpaceX: Update on Starship protype #9
- Daystar Television received a sizable PPP loan. What they purchased will blow your mind.
- Anzalduas Intl. Bridge will be a ‘game changer’ for RGV, Texas
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Soros-funded Los Angeles DA George Gascon Apologizes to Murder Victim’s Family for Telling Them to ‘Keep Their Mouth Shut’
- Over 4,000 People Shot in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago This Year
- Robert E. Lee statue removed from US Capitol
- How the formation of Texas Partners Bank helps The Bank of San Antonio empower local businesses
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Bodycam footage shows La Marque police officer shooting Joshua Feast VIDEO
- Multiple fatalities after plane crashes near Highway 360 in Grand Prairie today
- Pilot Dies in Crash of Experimental Aircraft in Burleson
- North Dakota Woman Sentenced in Crash That Killed Texas Man
- 9 injured, 1 killed in fiery crash on I-20 near Stanton
- Midland PD: Woman shoots, kills man stealing items from her vehicle
- Midland Police make arrest in connection to deadly shooting at DK convenience store
- Odessa family’s 9 ft. Santa statue recovered after being stolen
- Car crash involving semi trailer leaves two people dead on Highway 287 in Wichita Co., Two Electra residents die in Saturday accident
- DPS traffic stop leads to drug seizure and recovery of stolen vehicle in Wheeler Co.
- Wichita Falls Police investigate toddler death
- Two arrested on smuggling of persons charges
- An alleged sexual assault suspect admits he raped his friend – almost a mug shot of the day
- Vandals strike Wichita Falls NBC-TV station
- Abilene man arrested for child sex crime
- Abilene police ask for help finding missing 13-year-old boy
- Abilene man accused of sending child pornography through FB messenger
- Abilene man killed, former San Angelo mayor, wife injured in head-on crash near San Angelo
- Mother accused of murdering son, wounding daughter suffered from depression
- Clovis man sentenced for making bomb threat to Covenant Hospital in Plainview, more
- Lubbock Toddler Passes Away After Swallowing Button Battery
- Prostitution sting nets 13 arrests at Lubbock hotel
- DPS: Lubbock man killed in Lynn County crash early Saturday
- Bear Dalton, RodeoHouston and Spec’s wine expert, dies of cancer
- She was in Iraq when her son was killed. Four years later, Houston police have no leads.
- Man, 25, killed in New Caney shooting, suspect arrested
- Police: Houston child shot in dispute between parents
- 10-year-old boy accidentally shot by brother, Fort Worth police say
- Feds announce operation to reduce violent crime in Austin
- Arizona man charged with stealing millions from state of Texas after claiming to be mask distributor
- Dallas police, FBI make 20 arrests after 18-month investigation into organized crime ring
- Greenville HS student remote learning killed after car crashes into house
- Two Texas residents busted in $26M international tire scheme
- Real Estate Developer Indicted for Bribing Dallas City Council Members, Faces 15 Years in Prison
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- Local government
- Texas Among Top in Nation with $12,500 Local Government Debt Per Citizen
- City of Midland to offer help to most vulnerable businesses
- Abilene’s City Link rolls out new bus tracking app
- Abilene City Council approves proposed budget cuts for fiscal year 2021, more
- Q&A with new Abilene police chief Marcus Dudley
- Plainview ISD School Board extends temporary emergency paid sick leave for employees
- Lubbock City Council approves purchase of Central Lubbock commercial building for health department
- $3M at risk for Mission CISD in electronic device reimbursements
- Editorial: A New Year’s Resolution for the Amarillo City Council
- Amarillo Businessmen Unveil Proposal for New Bond Election
- Conservative Austin City Council Candidate Wins Seat in Upset, Disrupting Progressive Uniformity
- North Austin Voters Reject City Council’s Far-Left Turn
- Houston Mayor Moves Forward with Vision Zero Plan Aiming to End Traffic Fatalities – stupid
- Harris County elections were fair and secure, task force finds
- Deal near in Bandera County wastewater fight; Honey Creek dispute to go before judge
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- Colleges & universities
- McMurry University Physics Students Win National Recognition for Second Year
- ACU student places in national photo competition
- Sul Ross: Museum of the Big Bend receives $750,000 grant for NEH
- Dominican student finds new dream at MSU Texas
- LCU receives major gift for faculty development and student scholarships
- UTEP faculty and students continue mission to ensure waived fees for ADA parking
- UT Austin introduces Dan Rather Medals for relentless reporting – he’s a disgraced liar of a reporter!
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- Military
- US Space Force members will now be called ‘guardians’ – silly
- Rep. Arrington: Keeping B-1s flying, personnel at Dyess a win
Pratt’s post for 12/21/2020
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